Position Title: Specialized Engineer - Senior (Salesforce)
Program: Enterprise Auto Loan Origination Platform (Helix)
Industry: Automotive Finance / Financial Services
W2 ONLY
5 MONTHS CONTRACT
Location: Arlington, Texas (Hybrid: 3 Days Onsite / 2 Days Remote)
1. Program & Organizational Context
· A leading North American automotive financial services enterprise is modernizing its dealer-originated lending ecosystem through Helix, a high-performance loan origination and credit decisioning platform. Helix replaces legacy origination processes with a modern, cloud-native, API-driven architecture that powers automated credit evaluation, vehicle pricing, fraud mitigation, stipulation processing, and contract funding across nationwide automotive dealer networks.
· The platform operates in a hybrid multi-cloud environment, tightly integrating Salesforce with Microsoft Azure/.NET microservices, industry exchange portals (RouteOne, Dealertrack), major consumer credit bureaus, risk/pricing platforms (Open Lending), and core funding backends. Delivery is executed through cross-functional Agile PODs focused on velocity, quality engineering, and continuous delivery.
2. Position Overview
· The Specialized Engineer - Senior (Salesforce) is a hands-on technical specialist responsible for building, optimizing, and maintaining mission-critical components within the Salesforce ecosystem of the Helix platform. This role balances declarative solutioning with advanced programmatic engineering—implementing responsive Lightning Web Components (LWC), complex Apex business logic, event-driven integrations, and automated workflows.
· Working alongside Solution Architects, .NET Engineers, Quality Engineers, and Product Owners within an assigned delivery POD, the Senior Engineer ensures all code meets high standards for maintainability, security, governor limits, unit-test coverage, and execution performance.
3. Key Responsibilities
Hands-on Salesforce Development & Configuration
· Design and implement high-performance custom user interfaces and business workflows using Lightning Web Components (LWC) and Salesforce Flows.
· Develop clean, reusable, and bulkified Apex classes, triggers, batch jobs, queueable processes, and schedulable jobs adhering to enterprise design patterns and governor limit constraints.
· Champion a "configuration-over-customization" mindset, leveraging Flow Builder and native Salesforce capabilities before building custom code.
· Configure and maintain custom objects, record types, validation rules, page layouts, formula fields, and custom metadata types.
Integration & Event-Driven Engineering
· Develop and maintain secure, resilient REST and SOAP API integrations connecting Salesforce to external partner platforms (credit bureaus, Open Lending, fraud detection engines, RouteOne, and Dealertrack).
· Implement event-driven publish/subscribe patterns utilizing Salesforce Platform Events and Change Data Capture (CDC) to facilitate asynchronous communication with downstream Azure services.
· Handle high-throughput payload processing, API callout optimization, response error handling, and transaction idempotency.
Code Quality, Testing & Security Discipline
· Maintain strict adherence to organizational code quality standards, achieving and exceeding 85%+ automated unit test code coverage with meaningful positive, negative, and bulk assert statements
· Participate actively in peer code reviews, pull request evaluations, and defect triage.
· Remediate static code analysis and security vulnerabilities identified by scanning tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, or equivalent enterprise scanners.
· Apply strict security controls across all deliverables, including Object-Level Security (OLS), Field-Level Security (FLS), sharing rules, and CRUD/FLS enforcement in Apex.
DevSecOps & CI/CD Pipeline Participation
· Utilize Salesforce CLI (SFDX), Git branching workflows, and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for source-driven development, automated builds, and multi-environment deployments.
· Support deployment readiness, branch merging, package versioning, and post-deployment validation across sandbox and staging environments.
Agile POD Delivery & Collaboration
· Actively participate in all Agile ceremonies: PI Planning, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
· Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Business Analysts to refine Product Backlog Items (PBIs) and user stories into actionable technical tasks meeting the Definition of Ready (DoR).
· Take personal ownership of sprint commitments, driving assigned user stories and defect resolutions through the Definition of Done (DoD).
· Mentor intermediate and junior Salesforce engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
4. Required Qualifications & Experience
· Total IT Experience: Minimum of 6–8+ years of hands-on software development experience.
· Salesforce Development Experience: 4–5+ years of dedicated, advanced Salesforce development experience on enterprise-grade implementations.
Core Technical Competencies:
· Frontend: Advanced proficiency in Lightning Web Components (LWC), JavaScript/ES6+, HTML5, and CSS/SLDS.
· Backend: Strong expertise in Apex (Triggers, Handlers, Enterprise Design Patterns, Batch/Queueable Apex, Dynamic SOQL/SOSL).
· Automation: Deep experience building complex, maintainable declarative automations using Salesforce Flow.
· Integrations: Demonstrated experience implementing outbound and inbound REST/SOAP APIs, JSON parsing, Named Credentials, and Platform Events.
· DevSecOps Tooling: Working knowledge of Git, Salesforce CLI (SFDX), Azure DevOps pipelines, and code scanners (SonarQube/Checkmarx).
· Industry Domain Experience: Background in Automotive Finance, Consumer Lending, Credit Decisioning, or Banking/FinTech systems is strongly preferred.
· Problem Solving & Collaboration: Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills; proven ability to collaborate across distributed onshore and offshore engineering PODs
· Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
· Work Location & Hybrid Policy: Must be able to work onsite in Arlington, Texas a minimum of 3 days per week.
5. Preferred Certifications
· Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I (PDI) (Required or strongly preferred)
· Salesforce Certified Platform Developer II (PDII)
· Salesforce Certified JavaScript Developer I
· Salesforce Certified Administrator
